A reader, watching Obama’s town hall meeting, asks, “What happened to Obama’s legendarily succinct answers? A question about green technology has morphed into discussion of electronic health records.”

I also notice that Obama is declaring, “This bill does not have a single earmark in it.”

He needs to read the bill more closely. What does he call the $200 billion for “one or more near zero emission powerplants” when the only one that had been on the Department of Energy’s drawing board was FutureGen, a favorite of the Illinois congressional delegation and now-departed Gov. Rod Blagojevich? The one project that had been scuttled, and that the Obama administration had said it opposed, because of prohibitively enormous costs?

I liked this succinct assessment from Ed Morrissey: “The problem in this bill isn’t in Elkhart, and neither is the solution.”